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The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended…
The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended vindicator of the primitive church, but indeed of the tympanite & tyranny of some prelates many hundred years after Christ, with a detection of the false history of Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland ... and a preface abbreviating much of Ludolphus's History of Habassta : written to show their dangerous error, who think that a general council, or college of bishops, is a supreme governor of all the Christian world ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; to which is added by another hand, a defence of a book, entitled, No evidence for diocesan churches ...The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended vindicator of the primitive church, but indeed of the tympanite & tyranny of some prelates many hundred years after Christ, with a detection of the false history of Edward Lord Bishop of Corke and Rosse in Ireland ... and a preface abbreviating much of Ludolphus's History of Habassta : written to shew their dangerous errour, who think that a general council, or colledge of bishops, is a supream governour of all the Christian world ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; to which is added by another hand, a defence of a book, entituled, No evidence for diocesan churches ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I will not refer you to the Queen of Navarr•, and Stephanus his World of Wonders, against the Priests, lest you think I approve of the excess.
Yea read but the Writings of our famous Learned Critics, Jul. and Joseph Scaliger, Heinsius, Salmasius, &c. from whom the railing Jesuit Lab took advantage to say, Tom. 1. p. 820. [Riv••o prae•v••at Josephus Scaliger, homo utique modestissimus, qui Editores S. Irae•ae• vocat, clamosos, maledicentissimos. C•rcop•s, Tartareos, Pyriphleget•o•tas, vir•lentiae & probrorum co•c••n•tores, & editionem coloniensem, cloacam Sycophantiarum, l•••in•m conv•ti•••m, & sta••l•m inscitiae.] Through God's great mercy, while Malignity is the Complexion of the Serpent's Seed, and Lying is their Breath, and Murder is their Work, the names of all these sins are odious in the world, and guilt is impatient, and cannot endure its own name.
Yea read but the Writings of our famous Learned Criticks, Jul. and Joseph Scaliger, Heinsius, Salmasius, &c. from whom the railing Jesuite Labbe took advantage to say, Tom. 1. p. 820. [Rivo praevat Josephus Scaliger, homo utique modestissimus, qui Editores S. Iraeae vocat, clamosos, maledicentissimos. Crcops, Tartareos, Pyriphlegetotas, virlentiae & probrorum cocntores, & editionem coloniensem, cloacam Sycophantiarum, linm convtim, & stalm inscitiae.] Through God's great mercy, while Malignity is the Complexion of the Serpent's Seed, and Lying is their Breath, and Murder is their Work, the names of all these sins are odious in the world, and guilt is impatient, and cannot endure its own name.